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   From: tanghuyen@gmail.com   
      
   On 11/16/2016 7:47 PM, Don wrote:   
      
   > Available for FREE download on the Internet at Project Gutenburg is   
   > Nietzche's Beyond Good and Evil.  He has managed to  survey his   
   > predecessors philosophies in terms of their idealism, etc., and   
   > accounts for their failed attempts square things with the real world.   
   >   
   > I'm reading it on Kindle and have gone past the first chapters,   
   > skimmed some, and at least looked at the sections he has on such   
   > things as favorite truisms.   I'm sure you'd find interesting what he   
   > says about Kant's "pure reason."   
   >   
   > BTW, a lot of where Nietzche's coming from seems akin to Taoist   
   > thought.  bookburn   
      
   Nietzsche is mostly a Stoic and Sceptic of the Pyrrhonian   
   kind. His amor fati is Stoic. His scepticism is almost straight   
   from Pyrrho. Pyrrho's Scepticism is very close to Buddhism   
   and Daoism, so is Stoicism, therefore by being close to   
   those two Greek schools, he is close to Buddhism and   
   Daoism. If you know Buddhism and Daoism, there is little   
   that is new with him. He is taken to be revolutionary only   
   because whites don't know how close to Stoicism and   
   Pyrrho's Scepticism he is. I don't remember what he has to   
   say on reason, so shall not adjudge him on it. But his   
   reasoning tends to be of the flashy, bombastic, aphoristic   
   kind, not of the calm, composed, continuous kind, though he   
   can be very profound. Anybody who knows to follow   
   Stoicism and Pyrrho's Scepticism can be profound with   
   ease, since those two schools are very "drilling" and very   
   unforgiving with their drilling. Chinese Chan can be   
   considered as the logical end of such brutal drilling,   
   specially of the aphoristic bent, flavoured with Doaist   
   humour and idiosyncrasy. (Much of this drilling is lost in   
   Japanese Zen, which is stiff and stuck-up like the   
   Japanese).   
      
   Tang Huyen   
      
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